--- title: It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look thro… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again. Who acts: key, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/) / 15 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 15 It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again. **Who acts:** key, Alice · **What happens:** be, do, lie down, look through, get through, sit down · **To what, where:** one side This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (key, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:3:15 # text = It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 down down ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 through through ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 29 through through ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 32 hopeless hopeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 38 down down ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 again again ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | key | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | could | Alice | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lie down** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | one side | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 4 | **look through** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | with one eye; into the garden; through *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into garden=Theme | | 5 | **get through** | to-infinitive | key *not said here* | | | | | hopeless, through *property* | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **sit down** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **begin** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | again | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/)